Thirty chapters describe the main facts of DuPage County's history from the earliest settlements and political organization up to 1913. Biographical sketches of prominent people, portraits, family histories, township histories, an index of...

Papers, Addresses, Reports: The Development of Smokeless Fuel from Illinois Coal; The Irwin Expedition about Cerro de Pasco and Lake Titicaca; Preserves of Natural Conditions; Gaining and Losing Power; Report on the Progress and Condition of...

Articles:
A Victorian Tragedy: The Strange Deaths of Mayor Carter H. Harrison and Patrick Eugene Prendergast; The "Race of the Century": 1895 Chicago; Major N. Clark Smith in Chicago; One Glorious Season: How Baseball Helped to Integrate...